EXTRACTION OF AN EMPHYSEMATOUS CALF. 387 
I secured several hooks into the neck, so as to pull at them. 
I next slipped both the fore-legs from the body at the shoulders, 
and they came away by using moderate force. We now pulled at 
the neck by the hooks we had inserted, and got it out as far as 
the chest. I then rempved the thoracic and abdominal viscera 
and some of the ribs, and, by using somewhat severe force, we 
extracted the calf, which was emphysematous all over, and most 
probably it had been dead a fortnight. After we got the calf 
away, a large tumour (part of the vagina) protruded out at the 
“ shape,” that looked black, and as if there was extravasation of 
blood underneath, and which I thought proper to scarify and punc- 
ture, as I fancied that it might cause irritation and straining. 
After having scarified it in two or three places without any thing 
coming out, I made two or three punctures, perhaps half an inch 
deep, and from one of them there issued a large stream of blood, 
quite as much as from some large artery, and it made a whiz- 
zing noise. I became alarmed. I put my finger into the opening, 
and found it went into a bloodvessel large enough to admit of 
one’s fore-finger. From its feel I imagined that it was a vein that 
was opened, yet, from the jetting way it issued out I thought it 
was an artery that I had punctured. 
I put two sutures into the wound, and forced the protruded 
parts into the vagina, had a truss and pad put over the parts, 
and ordered her to be watched in case haemorrhage came on. 
She was now very much exhausted, and lay with her head down 
at full length. I forgot to mention, that before I arrived she had 
been tapped in two places in consequence of tympanitis. 
KM. — No haemorrhage has taken place. Is very ill. Sent an 
aperient and some fever medicine. 
Wih, eleven A.M. — Respiration very short; pulse 116; is in 
pain, and restless. Three P.M., died. 
Post-mortem, examination . — On the following morning I opened 
her, to see what vessel had been punctured. * 
The uterus had contracted as much as it could for the retained 
placenta. It was very much thickened, and between its muscular 
fibres and in the cellular tissue there was great effusion of serum 
and lymph ; and in some places, especially towards its neck and 
in the’ vagina, there was extravasation of blood. 
The placenta, within the fundus, was firmly attached, and would 
not have come away for some days. That about its neck was loose 
and separated. 
I now laid open the tumour that I had punctured. The stitches 
had kept firm hold, but on separating them I laid the parts open, 
and clearly ascertained that I had punctured a very large vein, 
but which had contracted a good deal, and contained some coagu- 
